The Nutcracker: The Untold Story

The Nutcracker: The Untold Story

Set in 1920s Vienna, this is the tale of a little girl, whose godfather gives her a special doll one Christmas Eve.

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Anna Karamazoff

Anna Karamazoff

This film is of interest primarily because it contains within it the entire surviving footage of an unfinished 1974 film by the same director...

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A Nest of Gentry

A Nest of Gentry

A screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. The film portrays the life of Russian landed gentry in the 1840s...

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The Bottomless Bag

The Bottomless Bag

Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's In a Grove, story takes place during the times of Tsar Alexander II. A lady-in-waiting tells the Emperor in his...

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The Seventh Bullet

The Seventh Bullet

Despite the restoration of Soviet power in the area, Basmachis continue to arrive from across the border, bringing death and destruction to...

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My Heart Is in the Highlands

My Heart Is in the Highlands

A surreal film done in the style of a silent farce.

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Unexpected Joy

Unexpected Joy

Unfinished and lost film directed by Rustam Khamdamov, shot in 1972-1974.

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Vocal Parallels

Vocal Parallels

Vocal Parallels is a surreal, impressionistic concert of classical opera pieces performed by several retired Soviet opera divas: Roza Dzhamanova...

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Diamonds. Theft

Diamonds. Theft

This is a poetic film set in the times of Lenin's NEP. A ballet dancer steals a brooch and gives it as a present to another dancer. This is a crime...

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"Il polverone" di Tonino Guerra

"Il polverone" di Tonino Guerra